Dabrye

Dabrye: One/Three

by AAJ Staff
January 1, 2002

One/Three sees hip-hop going under the precise knife of Dabrye and emerging with a serious facelift, but with a new zest for life. Dabrye’s electronic hip-hop beatscapes are vaguely familiar yet futuristically new. Unashamedly electronic in atmosphere – his beats sound like they have been put through an industrial shredder – they went in as crisp boom-bap a la Jay Dee and came out as squelchy, metallic chrome-blip. But Dabyre injects enough warmth into his mechanistic basslines to maintain a ...